Tunisia

The Tunisian Republic is a country located in North Africa, with its capital at Tunis. It is mostly desert, bordering the Atlas Mountains to the south and the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and it is the only democracy in the Arab World, having established a successful government after the 2011 Tunisian Revolution.

History
Tunisia was once inhabited by the Berbers and Phoenicians who ruled over the city-state of Carthage, and the Roman Empire ruled over the country from the 149 BC Battle of Carthage until the 7th century, when the Rashidun Caliphate conquered North Africa. Since then, almost the whole population has adhered to Islam, mostly the Sunni branch. In 1881, France conquered Tunisia from the Beylik of Tunisia, but in 1957 Habib Bourguiba won independence for Tunisia, which became a democracy, unlike many other independent Arab nations, which tended to be either dictatorships or kingdoms. Tunisia was eventually ruled by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's dictatorship from 1989 to 2011, but in 2011 the Tunisian Revolution ousted Ben Ali and led to a democratic government being elected. Tunisia is the only democracy in the Arab World, and it was one of the few Arab Spring countries not to go through civil wars or protests afterwards, instead having to deal with the Second Libyan Civil War across the border and Islamist terrorism that had been going on for several years. The Islamic State recruited 3,000 Tunisians to join them and attacked Tunisia on a few occasions, but Tunisia's government was able to hold its own.